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News:  September 2008


Direct Payments v TUPE

Information sheet from Keely's Solicitors.

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User-led services – Can the council deliver?

Public Service
26 September 2008


Mo Baines talks about the personalisation agenda and what it will mean for the public sector.

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Alarm raised over cost-cutting methods

Community Care
25 September 2008

Gary Fitzgerald has says he’s concerned with the speed at which personalisation is to be implemented.

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Care Quality Commission

The Telegraph
18 September 2008


According to the Baroness Young of Old Scone, when the new Care Quality Commission comes into play next year the ‘postcode lottery’ will get worse.

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In Control arrives in Australia

Community Care
17 September 2008


Caroline Tomlinson one of the pioneers behind individual budgets has taken In Control to Australia.

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The lives of carers

The Observer
14 September 2008


It was recently announced that carers save the taxpayers £87m per year, however most carers are living in practical poverty with little or no support.

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Brokerage

Community Care
10 September 2008


An article on brokers, independent support brokers, personal brokers and brokerage.

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1.5 million people let down by carers

PRNewswire
5 September 2008


Government and LD organisations are ‘failing’ to give people with learning disabilities a voice and options on personalisation.

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